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...American Jewish Congress, on behalf of several male academics, filed several charges this year with HEW of "reverse-discrimination." In December, Stanley Pottinger, director of the Office for Civil Rights under HEW, said that the affirmative action efforts for women and minorities were "losing ground" to a growing rhetorical backlash from male faculty members and administrators...
...Januray, 19 college presidents telegrammed President Nixon and new HEW secretary Casper Weinberger to "reaffirm their belief" in affirmative action as a means of eliminating discriminatory hiring patterns. Neither President Bok nor President Horner signed the telegram...
Furthermore, the Administration's secrecy in compiling its data and developing its proposals runs counter to the ideal of an open University for which any affirmative action plan should stand. The University distributes publicly only abridged versions of the affirmative action documents it submits to HEW. And although the institution is not required by government directive to divulge the contents of its plan to its students or faculties until the proposal is accepted by HEW and becomes binding policy for the University, surely Harvard has nothing to lose by making all of its plans available to interested parties...
...despite the fact that Federally-funded institutions whose affirmative action proposals do not comply with government standards risk loss of Federal grants (about one-third of Harvard's total annual income), all indications are that the University's new and purportedly improved proposal is no more likely to win HEW approval than its forerunners...
...although the University is not required to divulge the contents of its affirmative action plan until after it has been accepted by HEW and has become binding University policy, the women have long maintained that the Administration might profit from suggestions by women employees...